Meanwhile, the Holiday is on next month's CB3/SLA agenda under new license applications. Suspicious, given that they already have a license.

Well. Turns out the building in in contract...

A well-place tipster notes that the Holiday as we know it will close after Saturday night. "Locks will be changed immediately."

We understand that another bar will take its place. What happens to the current appearance is unknown.

Per the tipster: "Another EV historical institution gone."

Indeed.

And now, a walk-off passage from an article by former East Village resident Mike Hudson in the Niagra Falls Reporter a few years back:

[L]ike many Manhattan dives the Holiday Lounge had its writers.

For years Allen Ginsberg had a large apartment in a building almost directly across the street, and he and other Beat writers like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke spent considerable time with the bookies, dope dealers, working girls and alcoholics for whom the Holiday was a second home.

I think it's gonna be combination artisanal ramen noodle & gourmet hamburger joint with signature (liquid nitrogen) frozen cocktails made from Starbucks coffee which will then be partially melted with a hot poker.

i'm sorry to disagree, but i'm almost positive the information about the sale of the building is true, but that the holiday won't be closing... still, i'll probably there for the next three nights (but really would have anyway)

The Holiday is quite possibly the first "real" bar I ever went to, somewhere around 1978. We went because the drinks were $1 (and they didn't ask for id). I was in my best punk rock outfit and purple hair. The bartender left for what seemed like a long while, so we made the rash decision to bolt. We ran out on a bill of around $5. Why the bartender didn't collect our money when he gave us the drinks is beyond me, because we were obviously kids. I couldn't go back in there for years due to the humiliation.

One of my friends only remembers there being roaches on the bar but I contend she is mixing it up with Stromboli, which is the first place I ever saw a roach in a restaurant, and it may have been that same night.

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